Maer Roshan is an American writer, editor and entrepreneur who has launched and edited a series of prominent magazines and websites, including FourTwoNine.com, TheFix.com, NYQ, Punch!, Radar Magazine and Radaronline.com. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Los Angeles Magazine. Previously he was Deputy Editor of New York, Editorial Director of Talk and Senior Editor of Interview. He has written for The New York Times, the Miami Herald, New York, The New Republic, The Advocate, Details and Harper's Bazaar. Early life Maer Roshan was born to an Iranian Jewish father and American mother. Roshan moved to New York in 1979 with his mother and siblings, shortly after the Islamic Revolution. His father fled Iran 7 years after and died after arriving in the United States. He began his media career in 1989 after graduating from NYU as a crime reporter at the Key West Citizen and launched his first magazine, the gay weekly QW in 1991, at the height of the AIDS crisis, recruiting a prominent group of writers and editors including Andrew Solomon and David Rakoff. The magazine's coverage of politics and culture earned it a General Excellence Award from the Alternative Press Association. Soon after, Time Inc. hired him to create a national gay glossy, Tribe. Career In 1994 Roshan was hired by Kurt Andersen as Deputy Editor of New York. He went on to produce some of the magazine's most high-profile features, including the first interview with Donatella Versace after the murder of her brother, Gianni Versace, and the first post-impeachment interview with Monica Lewinsky. In 2003 he was awarded an Emmy for his work as Executive Producer of the New York Awards, a televised special that aired on NBC. Later that year Tina Brown appointed Roshan as Editorial Director of Talk magazine. Following an editorial overhaul, he was credited by Adweek with "turning around the struggling publication, doubling circulation in ten months . Brown called him "the only real natural male magazine editor of his generation." But the magazine's trajectory was interrupted by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which devastated the advertising market. In January 2002 afterTalk suspended publication, Roshan gathered aides from New York and Talk and started Radar' an irreverent monthly about politics and pop culture. Hailed by The New York Times as the year's most anticipated launch, Radar's first two test issues sold out across the country. Soon after, the magazine disappeared from the newsstands